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4 Can. J.L. & Soc. 77 (1989)
Juvenile Prostitution and Mental Health: Policing Delinquency or Treating Pathology

handle is hein.journals/cjls4 and id is 81 raw text is: Juvenile Prostitution and Mental Health: Policing Delinquency or Treating Pathology? Augustine Brannigan Department of Sociology University of Calgary John Fleischman Policy and Research Department of Justice Canada Abstract - Juvenile prostitution has been characterized alternatively as an expression of delinquency based on opportunity, and, as a form of pathological work chosen by adolescent victims of sexual abuse. Analysis of the trends in arrests for solicting in Canada suggest that the majority of persons arrested for soliciting are not juveniles. In addition, estimates of abuse in the background of prostitutes are ex- tremely inconsistent. Questions are raised both about the relevance of the pathological model and the utility of treating soliciting as a crime. Risumn - La prostitution adolescente a &.6 dtcrite d'une part comme la dilinquance juvinile base sur l'occasion et d'autre part comme une forme du travail pathologique choisie par les victims adolescent de mauvais traitment sexuel. L'analyse des tendances aux arrestations pour le racolage au Canada suggre que la majorit6 desfemmes arr- tdes ne sont pas les adolescentes. De plus les appriciations de l'importance de mauvais traitment sexuel dans les vies des prostitu es sont hautement inconsistante. Ceci souleve les questions de la perti- nence du modele pathologique et l'utilit,6 du point de vue comme quoi le racolage est un crime.

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